Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD (Marshfield, Wis.) 03/22/2002

Bymers, Ethel (14 FEB 1911 - 20 MAR 2002)

SPENCER - Ethel E. Bymers 91, formerly of Spencer, died Wednesday March 20, 2002 at Clark County Health Care Center. Owen. Funeral services will be a 1 p.m. Saturday, March 23, 2002, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Spencer. Burial will be in West Spencer Cemetery, town of Spencer, Clark County. Rev. Karl Rose will officiate. Pallbearers will be Jerome Bauer, Ray Lawrence, Mike Bymers, Dave Atkinson, Tim Foss, and Steve Reckner.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Community Funeral Home, Spencer and from noon until service time at the church on Saturday.

Ethel was born February 14, 1911 in the town of Sherman, Clark County to Albert and Lydia (Hoops) Vanderhoof. Ethel and Paul Bymers were married September 14, 1932 at Salem Lutheran Church, Veefkind. He died September 3, 1968. She farmed with her husband until 1961 when they moved to Spencer. She worked at the "Butch" Schultz Meat Market and Locker Plant until it was sold. She then worked in the sewing department of Pathfinder Homes until she retired. She was an excellent homemaker and cook all her life. She enjoyed gardening, flowers and bus tours with friends and in the later years with her close friend Elmo Barker. She was baptized, confirmed, and married at Salem Lutheran Church, Veefkind, and was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.

Ethel is survived by her son Roger (Mary Ann) Bymers of Spencer five grandchildren Mike (Jeannette) Bymers of Neillsville, Linda (Jeff) Reckner of Spencer, Roxanne (Dave) Atkinson of Spencer, Pamela (Tim) Foss of Silver Lake, MN, and Tonia Bymers of Hutchinson, Minn., seven great-grandchildren Steven, Stacey, Todd, Alek, Matthew, Tyler and Payton.

Ethel was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two sisters, Alvira Voelker and Coba Vanderhoof.